Frederic Bazille - The improvised field hospital 1865
The improvised field hospital 1865
47x62cm oil/canvas
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
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From Musée d'Orsay, Paris:
This painting of Claude Monet confined to bed with an injured leg, was painted in the summer of 1865. At the beginning of that year, Bazille was sharing his studio with Monet. In the spring, Monet went to Chailly, in the forest of Fontainebleau, to do some open air studies for his Déjeuner sur l'herbe. He urged Bazille to come and join him so that he could use him as a model. Bazille finally arrived in the summer, just before Monet had to break off from his work, following an accident.